Memo Book 5

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 12, 2013 at 05:32 PM

jimspoon wrote:
>each “document” can have a “virtual file
>system” attached to it - not just attached files, but files arranged in
>a tree hierarchy. I don’t know how useful that would be, though.

I can think of several instances where this feature could can in handy:

- CRM: each document is a customer and the virtual file system holds all interactions, quotes, invoices etc.
- Project management (for minor projects): each document is a project and the virtual file system holds all relevant documents in an organised fashion.
- Project management (for major projects): the full database represents the project, tree folders represent work packages, where each document is a task and the virtual file system holds all relevant documents
- Campaigns: each document is a campaign and and the virtual file system holds the mailing list, the mail templates, additional notes

In fact, I would say that it is a severe limitation that most PIMs cannot attach more than one file to a node. There are other exceptions of course, e.g. TheBrain and MyBase.

For one, gathering many files under one node is a good way to de-clutter the tree.